Ed Smith

Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community. ↗

— Ed Smith

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It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape. ↗

— Ed Smith

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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was. ↗

— Ed Smith

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I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever. ↗

— Ed Smith

#experienced #grandparents #growing #growing up #had

One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community. ↗

— Ed Smith

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Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects. ↗

— Ed Smith

#because #beyond #blacks #burden #civil

What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem? ↗

— Ed Smith

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When you were growing up in the 30s, 20s, of course the 40s, all black people at least in the Washington, D.C., area were required to live among themselves. ↗

— Ed Smith

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